Depression Magazine needs your masculine opinions!

Here is a note from the editors of Esperanza magazine. It’s the sister magazine to BP Magazine. (Bipolar Magazine). I write a colum for BP Magazine.  Both of these are excellent and very helpful publications!

BE PART OF THE WINTER 2009 ISSUE SOUNDOFF!

We are working on the WINTER 2009 issue of esperanza, the new anxiety and depression magazine, and need your input for SOUNDOFF! Click the link below to share your opinion on this issue’s topic.

As a man, how has depression impacted your life and what approach have you taken to get better?

Click here to share your thoughts, advice and experiences in 75 words or less by Monday, January 12th. Or email soundoff@hopetocope.com

You can read about he magazine at  www.hopetocope.com julie

PS: You can mention you read about it on my blog. They know me!





We Dont Feel Motivation- We Create Motivation

I just did an interview with a writer from Self Magazine on the topic of the January blues. She asked some excellent questions- and one of my ideas that she really liked was the concept that we can’t WAIT to want to do something- we have to just do something. That’s my first strategy in Get it Done When You’re Depressed. Depression never wants to do anything! I can sit until I’m frozen solid before I’ll want to get out and get on with my life if I’m depressed.

I think- where’s my motivation? Well, depression is eating it like candy! I want to be motivated, so I create it using the stuff I talk about in my books:

Set up a time to work with a friend- tomorrow I will meet my friend Karen to work together from 1-4PM. I will work on my book that’s due and she is going to [ Read More ]





Bipolar Depression… Boo hoo for me…

 

I’m feeling sorry for myself today. The limitations I have on my life and the limitations I’ve had to put on my life because of bipolar disorder are hard. I want to be like my friends. I want to come home after something wonderful and not go into a downswing.

 

After I got home from a NAMI speech last night- you can read about it below- I did so well for the whole two days! Now the downswing is here. I always think it will skip me! Sometimes it does, so I can focus on that. How I know I’m in a down swing?

 

- I’m crying a bit.

- I’m thinking of an old friend who dumped me [ Read More ]





I’m going to have a good day… darn it!

Well, I woke up depressed, so I’m going to do every single thing possible to make sure I have a good day. 

I will read:

Donald Trump: Never Give Up

I will be with friends: I can call or set up times to see them.

I WILL appreciate the fact that my mom lives close by and I can see her.  I am so lucky and I know it.

I can play with my mom’s puppy- her name is Cookie and she is an amazing depression buster!

and of course,,, I will remind myself all day that this is an illness and that nothing has changed in my life. I’m depressed because I have bipolar disorder.

It will get better as long as I keep moving forward.

Julie





Bipolar Disorder Depression: Get Up! Get Out! Get it Done!

 I woke up depressed. I was up a few nights ago so I’m obviously rapid cycling. I called a friend to tell her I was manic- this is part of my treatment plan- and she said, “Ok. What happens next?” I said, “Well, I feel so good right now, but I will probably go down. It always happens even though I never believe it will. I just have to look at the way it has been in the past.” Two days later I am down.

When I was sitting in my bed with what I call stunned depression- this is where I just sit and worry and can’t seem to move- I used my drill sergeant voice I talk about in my last book and I said, “Get up Julie. Get up and get on with your day. Get out of this bed!” And I did.

 I feel better.

I don’t like bipolar disorder, but [ Read More ]

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Stunned Bipolar Disorder Depression

I have a lot of names for the myriad types of depression I experience. For the past week, I’ve had stunned depression off and on. This type of depression is especially hard because it makes movement difficult. This rotten mood swing makes me sit on the side of the bed with my hands in my head like I’m in a daze. It’s harder to think. I have all of the normal upsetting depression thoughts- that is bad enough- I just can’t stand how it stuns me. Like a sucker punch. Technically, it’s catatonic depression… but it still feels like I’ve been hit from behind.

The holidays aren’t the best time for a lot of us. My friends are out of town- there are too many expectations-  people are out of the office- my hands are injured.

I could go on and on- which is exactly what depression wants me to do. [ Read More ]

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